tune

1 a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase]

2 the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch; "he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of tune"

3 the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency

1 adjust for (better) functioning; "tune the engine" [syn: tune up]

2 of musical instruments; "My piano needs to be tuned" [syn: tune up] [ant: untune]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

1. Harmony.
2. Song.
3. Condition.

Related terms

• carry a tune

Translations

Verb

1. To modify a musical instrument so that each component is aligned in a suitable pattern.

Translations

Derived terms

rel-top terms derived from Tune

• change one's tune
• in tune
• out of tune
• to the tune of
• tune in
• tuner
• tune out
• tune up

French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tyn/
• SAMPA: /tyn/

Noun

tune (plural: tunes)

1. money, dosh (slang)

Tune can refer to:

• A melody or tune-family
• A tune (folk music), a short piece of instrumental music, usually with repeating sections, and often played a number of times.
• Musical tuning, musical systems of tuning, and the act of tuning an instrument or voice
• Engine tuning, the adjustment, modification or design of internal combustion engines to yield more performance
• Tune, Denmark, a little Danish town near Roskilde
• Tune, Norway, a village in Norway, near Oslofjord
• Tune ship burial in Norway
• Tune (bicycle parts), a bike part manufacturer
• Neuronal tuning, the property of brain cells to selectively represent a particular kind of sensory, motor or cognitive information
• Psychokinetic ability in the 1998 film Dark City
• Tune, a Japanese fashion magazine.

See also

• Tuner

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